The official said the president told Attorney General Bill Barr that he wanted the National Guard to be armed so that they could protect themselves from rioters and looters coming in to the city, but Esper on his own told the D.C. National Guard leadership to take the weapons of National Guardsmen who were coming in from other states.

“He’s not really on board with what the president is trying to do,” the official said.

The official said Esper also on his own directed the National Guard in D.C. to wear soft caps instead of helmets. Breitbart News queried the Pentagon chief spokesman Jonathan Hoffman on Friday afternoon, but he did not respond by deadline.

Photos on social media showed National Guardsmen in D.C. wearing soft caps:

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Friday that two elite lawyers accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail into a New York Police Department vehicle last weekend should not receive bail and must return to jail.

Mattis works in New York for the Pryor Cashman corporate law firm, and was suspended without pay after news of his arrest. He had already been furloughed since April due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rahman is a human rights lawyer.

They were released on $250,000 bond. Rahman’s bail was posted by fellow attorney Salmah Rizvi, who worked in President Barack Obama’s administration as an intelligence official, providing information for Obama’s daily briefing.

Prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York were dissatisfied with the suspects’ release and filed an appeal.

Five members of a family who died in a Georgia plane crash were traveling to a funeral in Indiana, according to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office.

The Piper 31T twin-engine turbo prop airplane crashed in a heavily wooded area near Eatonton, Georgia on Friday afternoon, according to police.

Larry Ray Pruitt, 67, pilot and owner of aircraft, was killed along with his daughter Jody Rae Lamont, 43, and her husband Shawn Charles Lamont, 41. The Lamonts' children, 6-year-olds Jayce and Alice, were also killed in the crash.

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Two Columbus protests on Saturday drew a combined total of nearly 300 participants, many of whom were still outraged at the death of George Floyd and police brutality in the United States.

The first protest, titled “Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired” 8:46, took place early Saturday. Hosted by the National Pan-Hellenic Council, a collection of the historically African-American fraternities and sororities, participants marched from Fourth Street Missionary Baptist Church to the steps of the Government Center.

A GOP congressional candidate is accusing Facebook of "censorship" after the social media giant took down a campaign video that shows her holding an assault rifle and warning Antifa to "stay the hell out of northwest Georgia."

Marjorie Greene, a businesswoman running in Georgia's 14th District, posted the ad on Facebook Tuesday. By Thursday, Facebook told her campaign the video was coming down because it violated company policies against promoting the use of firearms.

The video is still running on Twitter, and Greene has bought air time to run the ad on broadcast and cable TV in advance of the Tuesday primary.

Protests for the death of George Floyd turned destructive in London as some chose to vandalize a statue of Winston Churchill on the 76th anniversary of D-Day.

In a video posted to Twitter Saturday morning, an unidentified British man vented his anger to two police officers over their failure to guard a bronze statue of Churchill in London's Parliament Square.

"It's disgusting," says the man. "So, why are you not guarding it now? Should I get all the football lads to guard it now, should I?" asked the man as the police officers asked him not to. "That's disgusting," he added, showing a protester standing in front of the statue. "So, as you can see, Churchill has really been hit. We've got police here, and it's been done. Pass the message on: Winston Churchill has been vandalized."

yfw your enemy from the last war, who knew your aims earlier than everyone else and sounded the alarms that everyone ignored until '39, whopp defeated you with arms and diplomacy, who saved the hated stalin, yfw when seventy five years later people desecrate his monuments

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Police in Paris have arrested three men accused of impersonating officers in a video that attempted to portray real police as racists in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.

The arrests were made on Sunday, but details about the incident remained unclear. Early reports suggest that the three men dressed as officers and a director and cameraman filmed a video in which the fake police arrest a black African man in front of a supermarket for theft while the real thief, a white man, is purposely let go.

According to investigators, the uniforms used were real and were connected to a Paris police officer who is thought to have loaned them to the actors.

Loïc Walder, delegate of the UNSA Police union in charge of the 3rd district, reacted negatively to the video, saying: “Some malicious people try to use this drama to bring the French national police into disrepute. It is really important to be extra vigilant about content we view online.”

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has threatened to pull out of the WHO over "ideological bias," as his counterpart Donald Trump said the US economy was recovering from the coronavirus pandemic while Europe slowly reopens its borders.

From Africa to Europe to Asia, governments are focused on reviving economies ravaged by weeks of restrictions to contain the virus that has killed almost 400,000 people worldwide since it emerged in China late last year.

European countries that are among the hardest hit are steadily reopening with the infection rates slowing even as Latin America is battered by the epidemic, especially Brazil which now has the world's third-highest number of virus deaths.

Two police officers have been suspended after a violent incident involving an elderly protester during a protest over the death of George Floyd in downtown Buffalo.

Police were removing protesters in Niagara Square when a man approached the line of officers with what appeared to be a helmet in his hand. After approaching one officer, the man was violently pushed to the ground, and blood could be seen coming from the back of theman’s head where he hit the ground as the officers passed by.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz confirmed that the 75-year-old man in the video is in stable condition at the Erie County Medical Center.

Officials said four members of a Florida family, including two young children, and a pilot on their way to a funeral in Indiana were killed in a plane crash in north Georgia

According to the FAA, a Piper PA-31T went down around 3:13 p.m. into the dense woods near Tanyard Road about six miles northeast of Eatonton, Georgia. The twin-engine turboprop plane reportedly took off from Williston Municipal Airport, a small airfield in between Gainesville and Ocala, Florida just after 2 p.m. The plane did encounter a line of storms as it passed over Putnam County, Georgia, but it was not immediately known if those storms played a factor in the crash.

After tens of thousands of George Floyd anti-racism protestors filled the streets in the U.S., a Chinese student in the U.S. tweeted pictures of luxury bags that he claimed were looted.

The individual, identified as "Yuan Hongrui" (袁宏睿), made several provocative pro-China tweets with pictures of at least three Gucci bags and a Dior bag for men. One of them read: "It is the Gucci bag I looted in Seattle. Is that good-looking? Poor Taiwanese students threatened to report it to the FBI. I am dead. I am in Seattle. Come to get me. Ha ha ha! I love the Communist Party and love my home country more. Americans owe a lot to China and a few bags cannot repay us for our loss. Are American that stingy?"